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J. L. STEVENS.

EGG CARRIER.

No. 279,199. I Patented June 12,1883.

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STEAD, OF SAME PLACE.

EGG-CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 279,199, dated June 12, 1883.

Application filed April 6, 1833. (No modeL) 'To all whom it 11mg concern terior walls of the tray being formed by scoring the straw-board a suitable distance from its edges and turning up the scored portions to form the walls of the tray. The ends of the scored portions are provided with tenons and mortises for locking the same firmly together, and the walls are braced and strengthened by intermediate transverse partitions or supports which divide the tray into four equal parts, each part being designed to contain, preferably, about nine eggs.

In the drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which similar letters of reference indicate like parts, Figure 1 is a perspective view of. a device embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view, showing the straw-board before its edges are folded up; and Fig. 3 is a plan view of the intermediate cross braces or supports folded.

In the drawings, A represents the straw board of which the tray is composed, preferably of a square form.

B B are the exterior walls of the tray. The walls B are formed by scoring the board A, as indicated in dotted lines at Fig. 2, at a. The walls B are provided with mortises b and tenons b, the tenons having a notch, b-, in their upper edges, whereby the adjacent walls B B are notched and held firmly together. Each wall 13 may be provided with a tenon at one end and a mortise at the other; or the tenons may be on both ends of one wall and the mortises on both ends of the other.

0 represents the intermediate vertical cross braces or supports. Each of these cross-braces middle, whereby the intermediate cross-braces O are interlocked with the exterior cross-walls B of the tray. on their under edges, as shown at d, and may preferably be cut beveling at their upper edges also, as shown at d, so that the tenons and mortises of the adjacent walls may be easily locked together.

The exterior walls, B, of the tray being integral with the board A and united thereto along their entire length, and the adjacent walls being securely interlocked together by the tenons and mortises, affords a very strong and rigid construction, especially when the walls are braced by the intermediate crosspieces, 0 G.

If preferred, the cross-braces G C may be provided with tenons and mortised into the walls B B, instead of interlocked by the simple notches shown.

The tenons I), being provided with a notch, If, at their upper edges only, permits of the adjacent walls being readily interlocked together when integral with the board A.

When the carrier is being shipped empty the walls B are laid out fiat, as shown in Fig. 2, and the cross-pieces C C folded, so that the a whole will occupy very small compass.

By this construction I am enabled to make a very cheap, strong, and durable tray, in which eggs may be safely packed and transported, and any number of trays can be tiered one on top of another, owing to the great strength and rigidity of the vertical walls B and the cross-supports (1".

I claim 7 The combination of board A, exterior walls, B, integral therewith, provided with mortises I) and tenons I), having notches b in their upper edges, and the intermediate cross-supports, 0, interlocked with each other and with the walls B, substantially as specified.

Dated Chicago, March 29, 1883.

JOHN L. STEVENS.

Vitnesses H. M. MUNDAY, EDMUND ADOOOK.

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